Wednesday, June 01, 2005

RUSSIA

Pravda: Yukos case ends with 9 years for its former CEO

Mikhail Khodorkovsky evaded to pay about 55 million rubles of taxes and insurance fees during only one year

The trial on the former head of the Russian oil giant Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his accomplices, finally ended with a sentence. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, have been found guilty of fraud and tax evasion charges and thus sentenced to nine years in jail.

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